Word: kaufmans
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...love Kaufman and Hart, and I love the thirties. But the Harpo production of You Can't Take It With You endows its characters with the fatal fruit of self-knowledge: it's a classic example of "camping." Instead of giving us the original and allowing the dislocation in time and space to provide the boffs, we are presented with a modern, hip conception of the thirties. The ingenue is not just "lovely, fresh, and young," as Messrs. K. and H. described her: Kent Wilson's Alice is a veritable Breck poster girl, a walking Palmolive ad, a cutie...
Like Lightbulbs. That motto is typical of Robert Kaufman's pseudosociological scenario, which mistakes words for thoughts and bruises for incisions. ("You're not a woman," yells Harry at Jan. "You're just a guy with a hole in the middle!") When the hero finds a Mexican-American student reading a comic book, he encourages him to study a higher work of similar intent. Back comes a note. "I finish Bat/nan and because of what Mr. Bailey say I go to the library and read Don Quixote." Anyone who believes that those two opuses can be negotiated...
Only one match was really close, as Cornell's Mark Kaufman extended Steve Devercaux to three sets at number six. Sophomore Dirk Dugan, the Big Red's only well-know player, almost took a set from Harvard's number one man, Bill Washauer, but he finally lost...
Legal Scapegoats. Judges are also worried by the growing belligerence and uncooperative attitudes of defense attorneys in political cases. "When lawyers don't play by the rules, a trial doesn't work," warns Second Circuit Appeals Judge Irving Kaufman. But some attorneys are radicals and rebels themselves; they often refuse to act as officers of the court. At times, both in Chicago and in New York, defense lawyers seemed as intent on confrontation as their clients were. This attitude infuriated Judge Hoffman and moved Judge Murtagh to comment critically that "counsel in no way admonishes his client when...
...Quakers' lead, and a pin by undefeated Mark Faller at 177 was counterbalanced by Dave Pottruck's 4-2 win over the Crimson's Tony Rayner, who wrestled in place of Dave Scanlon, at 190. Jim Abbott needed a pin at unlimited to tie the match, but Bob Kaufman played possum and salvaged...